primogeniture

Apart from a few royal families, primogeniture is no longer the norm in Western countries.

The modern equivalent of primogeniture in the U.S., as Schine sees it, is divorce.

That such an idea might come to M. d'Anjou is possible; his ancestors are mine, and it is only a question of primogeniture.

No argument can ever restore general confidence in the institution of primogeniture, but it dies hard, even (p. 085) in England.

Here his Lordship sighed, but not too deeply, for he remembered that the law of primogeniture is the sworn enemy to grief.

The law of entail is traceable to the same human instincts as the law of primogeniture.

At the same time, I did not believe nature had created men unequal, in the order of primogeniture from male to male.